Human Resource Flexibility and Organizational Effectiveness:

Abstract

ABSTRACT:

Purpose: Human resource flexibility is an important domain of study in organizational research. 21^st century organizations require a flexible system in its portfolio, which should encourage employees to be evolved with multiple job skills and abilities to sustain in the face of competitive result driven environment. In this context the purpose of the present paper is to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework to examine the interrelationship between human resource flexibility and organizational effectiveness. Further, it tries to establish the possible role of organizational citizenship behavior and employee intent to stay on the relationship between human resource flexibility and organizational effectiveness.

Design / Methodology/ Approach: The paper follows the method of in-depth and extant literature survey to critically examine and rationalize the influence of human resource flexibility on organizational effectiveness for Indian organizations.

Conclusions/Findings: The review provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to develop a conceptual model of human resource flexibility. The proposed model includes human resource flexibility, dimensions of organizational effectiveness, organizational citizenship behavior, and employee intent to stay.